Boy, that's an interesting question! Not sure if I've ever seen it asked here before.
Looking forward to the Tech 21 answer.
Looking forward to the Tech 21 answer.
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Why not try it? Remove any batteries that are in the downstream pedals, and hook ‘em up.
I received both the bddi v2 and street car 48. The biddi sounded good but, not as gritty has the Paradriver v2 with rumble filter engaged. The street car was interesting but, really voiced in a way that didn’t work for me. So, I sent them back and ordered a second Paradriver and a q-strip. The Paradriver v2 has become my always on preamp lately fed to my rig. I plan to use the q-strip after it to suit my sound exclusively to the FOH. I’ll take the parallel out of the q-strip to feed my amp. I’ll experiment with running the second Paradriver in front of the main one for more overdrive. I’ve been using a pddi v2 for my acoustic guitar as well and love it.
Yes, don't spill a beer on it.
You are best off keeping the tone controls on the bass set neutral if it has active tone. If you have a really high output bass, test the pedal when bypassed and listen to the bypassed signal. If it sounds normal with the bass volume full up you are good to go. If you perceive some crackling or unwanted sound, reduce the volume of the bass. In most instances there should be no issues.
Thank you very much! while with the bass fly rig v2 for an active bass I press the button in pad, right? Thank youYes, don't spill a beer on it.
It handles my active basses just fine, including my Sadowsky P5 that's my hottest bass. All I need to do is reduce Level and perhaps also Gain when switching from a passive bass to a hot active.
Thank you very much! while with the bass fly rig v2 for an active bass I press the button in pad, right? Thank you
It depends, try it both ways and see which you prefer.
Oh my….looking forward to hearing more on this one.
See post #687Street Driver
And please report back about your PDDI experiments(I have only one)!
You wrote you will start experiment with a PDDI into PDDI. Any news about that
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Oh yeah. The short answer is, it works very well. I thought that I would use one for my regular tone and then run another one into it with basically the same eq but more gain. It sounded good but, I actually prefer running my gregular sound with the first one and feeding that into the second one set for higher gain. It ends up sounding and feeling more amp-like. I use 100% Sansamp side of the pedal with the rumble switch in, treble all the way off, bass, mod and gain at noon. That’s into a genzler head and Ampeg svt212av cab. In a band I will be subbing with I just will use one with all buttons out, eq at noon and gain at 9:00. They are totally direct to the board and it’s a much different sound than my regular band. With the fill in band I need to be more in the background so, the scooped sound will work better. I recommend running two of these. I didn’t like running one with the bddi.
as i understand it mixing board phantom power maxes out at like 10mA, not very much
not sure how much mA at 9V you can get out of 10mA at 48V, or whether any pedals taking phantom power will present 9V at their DC power jack to begin with
Microphones do not have high current draw and phantom power was designed for that application. Our SansAmp DI's like the Bass and Para Driver etc have low current draw and can easily be powered by phantom power. Any pedal that has DSP or requires more current is incompatible with phantom power.
Having said that don't just assume that any board that has phantom is foolproof. I powered one of our DI's with the phantom power on one of my live mixing boards and found the phantom power was noisy. When I switched to one of my studio preamps or the phantom power on my recording interface there was no noise at all. It's worth testing. It's possible there was something internally wrong with the phantom power of my mixer or some other explanation that I'm not aware of.
Having said that don't just assume that any board that has phantom is foolproof. I powered one of our DI's with the phantom power on one of my live mixing boards and found the phantom power was noisy. When I switched to one of my studio preamps or the phantom power on my recording interface there was no noise at all. It's worth testing. It's possible there was something internally wrong with the phantom power of my mixer or some other explanation that I'm not aware of.
